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Even the lesser characters are hewed to the party line. Maid Marion is subtly un-American as she romps with the Merrie Men and casually disavows Motherhood. Friar Tuck is nothing if not the cleric who has lost all vestiges of his religion in the service of the state. But the author was most clever in his treatment of Little John; by proper manipulation of the dialectic, Little John Becomes its antithesis...
...look to for leadership at North American itself is Board Chairman James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, 58, a beefy (6 ft., 194 Ibs.), salty-tongued West Virginian whose fringe of white hair and twinkling blue eyes make him look like a modern-day Friar Tuck. Kindel-berger, who learned to fly in World War I. has devoted his life to turning out better and faster planes...
...soloists had an easy time. Contralto Margaret Roggero, whose rich, pure voice compensated for her poor diction, had one lovely aria in the first act. Yi-Kwei Sze, as Friar Laurence, showed fine tonal control, even in the lowest registers. The sudden emergence of his booming bass voice in the midst of a choral and orchestral tutti was one of the finest moments in the work...
...years ago, on October 31, 1517, that an Augustinian friar named Martin Luther posted 95 theses for theological debate on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Last week most Protestant churches throughout the world were celebrating this anniversary as Reformation Sunday. But, al. though Luther's act is almost universally regarded as the beginning of the Reformation, there is little unanimity, even among Protestants, about what he set out to do, and what he accomplished after the theses were posted...
...succession of loosely linked episodes depicts Francis delivering his famous sermon to the birds; the tormented Francis embracing a leper in a moving, wordless scene punctuated only by the clank of the leper's warning clapper and Francis' sobs as he throws himself on the ground; zealous Friar Juniper cutting off a little pig's foot to make soup for a sick brother; Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody tyrant Nicolaio, and causing him to lift his siege of the city of Viterbo in a sequence filled with fire and spectacle. The picture ends...